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NUMBER 95

November 2008


EDITORIAL v

TRANS-TASMAN LABOUR HISTORY
EDITORS: RAY MARKEY AND KERRY TAYLOR

Trans-Tasman Labour History: Introduction
Ray Markey and Kerry Taylor 1

Class Formation and Political Change: A Trans-Tasman Dialogue
Erik Olssen and Bruce Scates 3

Gender and the Trans-Tasman World of Labour: Transnational and Comparative Histories
Raelene Frances and Melanie Nolan 25

Trade Union Structure and Politics in Australia and New Zealand
Bradon Ellem and Peter Franks 43

An Antipodean Phenomenon: Comparing the Labo(u)r Party in New Zealand and Australia
Ray Markey 69

'Practical Utopians': Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand
Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore 97

The Changing Role of the State: Regulating Work in Australia and New Zealand 1788–2007
Gordon Anderson and Michael Quinlan 111

A Trans-Tasman Union Community: Growing Global Solidarity
Shelley Harford 133

A Tale of Two Towns: Industrial Pickets, Police Practices and Judicial Review
David Baker 151

OTHER ARTICLES

'His tap root was stronger and more tenacious than that of most of us': Robert Semple, an Australian New Zealander
Carina Hickey 169

Rethinking Cold War History
David McKnight 185

Mr Big, the Big Fella and the Split: Fault Lines in Bankstown's Labor Politics, 1955
Andrew Moore 197

Minimum Living Standards and the Working-Class Surplus: Higgins, Henderson and Housing
Dick Bryan 213

Strategic Choices and Unintended Consequences: Employer Militancy in Victoria's Meat Industry, 1986–93
Patrick O'Leary and Peter Sheldon 223

REPORT

Blackball '08: The Commemoration
Peter Franks 243

CONFERENCE REPORT

Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds, Canberra, 29–30 August 2008
Lyndall Ryan 247

BOOK REVIEWS

Bryan D. Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928 (Braham Dabscheck) 251

Robin Archer, Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? (John Tully) 252

Colin Cleary, Ballarat Labor: From Miner Hesitancy to Golden Age (Geoffrey Robinson) 254

V.L. Allen, The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa, 3 Volumes (Michael Clifford) 256

Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Robert Tierney) 258

Tracey Banivanua-Mar, Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade (Michael Quinlan) 260

Sue Taffe, Black and White Together: FCAATSI: The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 1958–1973 (Henry Reynolds) 262

Richard G. Hartley, River of Steel: A History of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply (Bobbie Oliver) 263

Philip Payton, Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall (Peter Donovan) 265

Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales (Shirley Fitzgerald) 267

Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds), Australia's Empire (Christopher Waters) 268

Raelene Frances, Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution (Susanne Davies) 269

D. Langmore (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 17, 1981–1990, A-K (Paul Pickering) 271

Mark Finnane, JV Barry: A Life (John McQuilton) 273

George Burchett and Nick Shimmin (eds), Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett (Rowan Cahill) 274

Philip Ayres, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830–1911 (Val Noone) 275

Margaret Tennant, The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005 (Mark Lyons) 277

Philip Mendes, Australia's Welfare Wars Revisited: The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies (Rob Watts) 279

Robert G. Hall, Voices of the People: Democracy and Chartist Political Identity 1830–1870 (Alex Tyrrell) 280

William Kenefick, Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c.1872 to 1932 (Bill Anderson) 282

Charlie McGuire, Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland (Frances Devlin-Glass) 283

Ben Jackson, Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Social Thought, 1900–64 (Kevin Morgan) 284

George Vair, The Struggle Against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975–1976 (Greg Patmore) 286

Adrian Burgos Jr, Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line (Braham Dabscheck) 287

BOOK NOTES

David Oldroyd, Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700–1780 (Erik Eklund) 291

Hazel Armstrong, Blood on the Coal: The Origins and Future of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Scheme (Peter Franks) 291

NOTICE BOARD 293

CALL FOR PAPERS 296

ASSLH DIRECTORY 297

INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS AND SUBSCRIBERS 298

EDITORIAL POLICY (revised Fedruary 2004) inside back cover


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